CHEAT AT LIFE

If the germaphobes of the internet are to be believed, I may as well be typing this on a dog turd. According to experts, computer keyboards are dirtier than toilet seats and you’re probably about to fall down dead because one of the 1500 types of bacteria on your keyboard has finally done you in.

You’re on holiday and you managed to beat the Germans to a good towel spot, so you’re staying there all day. Where do you put your cash when you want to go for a swim? Inside a tennis ball, of course, but you might want to watch out for dogs.

Madly packing at the end of a holiday and need a bag for your shoes? An excellent excuse to steal the free stuff in the bathroom. Make use of the hotel shower cap and use it to protect your clothes from grubby soles!

No. No it’s not. It’s not fun unless they are painting outside, in the garden, naked, on a day hot enough to hose everything down at the end, including the children. But this hack might help to keep some of the paint in one spot if you’re doing it inside.